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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-gc-file-manager-using">
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| 4 | <title>Using the Guest Control File Manager</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | The following steps describe how to use the Guest Control File
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| 9 | Manager.
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| 10 | </p>
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| 11 | <ol>
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| 12 | <li>
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| 13 | <p>
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| 14 | Open the Guest Control File Manager. Do either of the
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| 15 | following:
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| 16 | </p>
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| 17 | <ul>
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| 18 | <li>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | In the guest VM, select
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| 21 | <b outputclass="bold">Machine</b>,
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| 22 | <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b>.
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| 23 | </p>
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| 24 | </li>
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| 25 | <li>
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| 26 | <p>
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| 27 | In VirtualBox Manager, click on the machine name. Click
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| 28 | <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b> in the
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| 29 | machine tools menu for the VM.
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| 30 | </p>
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| 31 | </li>
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| 32 | </ul>
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| 33 | <p>
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| 34 | The left pane shows the files on the host system.
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| 35 | </p>
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| 36 | </li>
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| 37 | <li>
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| 38 | <p>
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| 39 | Create a guest session.
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| 40 | </p>
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| 41 | <p>
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| 42 | At the bottom of the Guest Control File Manager, enter
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| 43 | authentication credentials for a user on the guest system.
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| 44 | </p>
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| 45 | <p>
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| 46 | Click <b outputclass="bold">Create Session</b>.
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| 47 | </p>
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| 48 | <p>
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| 49 | The contents of the guest VM file system appears in the
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| 50 | right pane of the Guest Control File Manager.
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| 51 | </p>
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| 52 | </li>
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| 53 | <li>
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| 54 | <p>
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| 55 | Transfer files between the guest and the host system by
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| 56 | using the move and copy file transfer icons.
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| 57 | </p>
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| 58 | <p>
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| 59 | You can copy and move files from the guest to the host
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| 60 | system or from the host system to the guest.
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| 61 | </p>
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| 62 | </li>
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| 63 | <li>
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| 64 | <p>
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| 65 | Close the Guest Control File Manager.
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| 66 | </p>
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| 67 | <p>
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| 68 | Click <b outputclass="bold">Close</b> to end the
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| 69 | guest session.
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| 70 | </p>
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| 71 | </li>
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| 72 | </ol>
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| 73 | </body>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | </topic>
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